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Gon Ben David’s Roomer Pivot: From Hotel Cancellations to Creator-Led Travel

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:23:21 GMT

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Roomer didn’t just survive travel’s worst crash—it rebuilt itself inside the industry. In this episode, Gon Ben David (Co-Founder & CEO, Roomer) breaks down how Roomer went from a bold marketplace for reselling canceled hotel reservations, to partnering with giants like Kayak, to building “cancel-for-any-reason” infrastructure—then pivoting post-COVID into the creator economy, where travel decisions are increasingly driven by people, not platforms.

We talk about the non-obvious distribution lessons most founders miss, how to build partnerships that become your growth engine, and why “taste + data” may be the next frontier in travel discovery.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Roomer cracked demand with partners instead of burning cash in travel ads

• Why “inventory with an expiration date” changes everything about go-to-market

• The real operational chaos of “cancel-for-any-reason” during COVID (and how they lived through it)

• Why creators are becoming the new travel “experts”—and how Roomer helps them monetize

• A founder’s take on curiosity, humility, and telling the truth when things aren’t working

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David Bartholomeusz on Launching a Startup Every 90 Days

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:03:35 GMT

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David Bartholomeusz is a serial entrepreneur who’s built (and let go of) dozens of businesses—not to chase exits, but to design a life with more freedom and more play. In a conversation that starts light and quickly goes deep, David and Haggai unpack what leadership really is when you strip away ego, hustle-culture scripts, and the “CEO identity.”

You’ll hear how David runs rapid, low-cost startup experiments and how leaders evolve from managing followers to leading leaders. If you’re an operator, founder, exec—or just tired of performing success—this is your permission slip to rebuild from the inside out.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The hidden trap of “being the CEO” and why it can hollow you out

• How David tests business ideas quickly (without overbuilding)

• The difference between pain paralysis vs. “ready-to-move” pain

• Why the real product is often peace of mind—not the deliverable

• How to build teams that create autonomy (and stop needing you)

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Rachel Ten Brink’s Wild Entrepreneurial Journey: From Selling Perfume Subscriptions to AI Investing

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:14:26 GMT

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Rachel ten Brink has lived the full loop: corporate operator → YC-backed founder → GP at Red Bike Capital. She co-founded Scentbird, helped pioneer early DTC growth (before “playbooks” existed), and now backs founders at pre-seed and seed as a VC.

In this episode, Rachel shares thestory behind the wins: the awkward first meetings, the bad business models, the “almost gave up” moment, and the tactical moves that finally made Scentbird click—pricing discipline, retention-first subscription thinking, and early influencer marketing before it was crowded.

Then we flip to the investor lens: what she actually looks for in founders, why traction beats storytelling (especially for first-timers), and how AI changes the game—without replacing the fundamentals.

You’ll hear:

• The early Scentbird pivots that failed—and the one that finally worked

• Subscription survival: voluntary vs involuntary churn (and why card failures can kill you)

• What YC was like when growth expectations were brutal and simple

• The real advantage of “doing things that don’t scale” to land the first enterprise customers

• Rachel’s founder filter: learning speed, commercial sense, and distribution

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Yuval Odem (PlayerMaker): The FIFA-Approved Sensor Helping Athletes Perform Better & Avoid Injury

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:20:35 GMT

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PlayerMaker didn’t build “another sports gadget.” They built a FIFA-certified, footwear-mounted sensor system used by top football organizations—the kind of product that takes years of R&D, brutal accuracy standards, and relentless credibility to earn trust.

In this episode, Yuval Odem (Co-founder & COO) shares how two tiny sensors that clip onto an athlete’s shoes and track foot motion at 1000Hz—then translate raw signals into performance insights that coaches and players can actually use.

But the path there wasn’t glamorous. It started with… kayaks. Then a pivotal hire: a former Nike performance lab leader. Then two years of painstaking development: athletes wearing prototypes while being filmed, students tagging events in slow motion, and algorithms learning how to “understand” every stride, sprint, cut, and touch.

You’ll hear:

• Why PlayerMaker chose football first (even though it’s the hardest sport to put hardware on)

• The breakthrough metrics that change performance: ground contact time, stride length, flight ratio

• How gait asymmetry can flag injury risk before an athlete admits something’s wrong

• The behind-the-scenes reality of landing pro clubs: trials, skepticism, superstition—and earning trust session by session

• The 4-year FIFA certification marathon (safety + accuracy) and why it matters commercially

• The brutal prioritization dilemma of running B2B + B2C at the same time (“I do not recommend it.”)

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Ori Lahav (Outbrain): Build Trust at Scale — From Kibbutz Kid to $1B Adtech Pioneer

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:28:23 GMT

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Before Facebook, before Twitter, and before Chrome became what they are today, Outbrain helped shape the modern internet—and grew into a $1B+ revenue, public company with 1,000+ employees.

Ori Lahav, Outbrain’s former CTO and Co-Founder, opens our conversation with: “Entrepreneurship is like living with a chronic disease.” Not because it’s “morbid” — because it’s constant. It never stops calling. And if you’ve felt that “bug,” you’ll recognize yourself instantly.

In this episode, Ori tells the unlikely story: a kid raised in a kibbutz (where “business” and capitalism didn’t exist) secretly learns to code on a PDP computer (a “washing machine” sized relic), disappears from keyboards for a decade… and then gets pulled back in by the dot-com wave — until a sailing trip and a friend’s idea turns into Outbrain.

You’ll hear the behind-the-scenes lessons most founders miss:

• Why Outbrain started as a simple 5-star rating widget (and why bloggers loved it)

• The brutal truth of early-stage: ~2.5 years to get distribution, then 3 pivots in 18 months to find a business model

• The “lighthouse” framework Outbrain used to pivot fast without losing the mission

• The moment Outbrain fired its biggest client to protect “trust” (and the cost of doing the right thing)

• How to build culture when you scale across oceans

• Ori’s core rule: “Trust the other side”

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Daniel Hulme: Michelin Chef to Private Jet Catering Exit — The “No Contracts” Business of Perfection

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:23:55 GMT

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A Michelin-trained chef builds a premium private aviation catering company, serves royalty + “flying palaces,” survives COVID, then exits. All this while operating in a cutthroat market that is private aviation, where there are basically no contracts, you get <48 hours’ notice, and you are just as good as your last meal.

Daniel Hulme takes you inside a world most people never see: business jets that act as a “time machine” for executives, where flight attendants are the real decision-makers, and why the hardest part isn’t the food—it’s the logistics, systems, and reliability.

This episode is where we unpack:

• How Daniel went from Michelin kitchens → superyachts → America’s Cup chaos → private jets

• The system he built to scale from 5 flights to 70+ flights in a day

• “Heavy metal” wide-body missions (royal fleets, teams, tours) and what those orders actually look like

• Why food tastes different in the air (humidity + salt loss) — and how he engineered for it

• The unexpected COVID pivot: turning aviation infrastructure into a premium home-delivery brand that dominated the press

• The hidden side of exits: burnout, identity crash, and what nobody tells you after the deal closes

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Mor Assia: How iAngels Turned “Shabbat Deal Flow” Into 27 Exits & $550M Deployed

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:08:43 GMT

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Before Mor Assia ever wrote a term sheet, she already had a fascination with tech companies. As a kid, she’d flip to the tiny “Israelis on Nasdaq” section of the newspaper and track the numbers. At home, dinner conversations were about who founded what, who raised, who exited, and who’s building next.

Fast-forward: Mor becomes a Technion-trained engineer, serves in 8200, codes, climbs corporate strategy at IBM/Amdocs… and still, something nags at her.

She keeps hearing the same frustration from smart global investors:

“We only see Israeli deals after they cross the Atlantic—when the insiders already took the best entry.”

It felt like a broken bridge. A market inefficiency. A network problem.

So Mor and her partners built iAngels to fix it—starting with a brutal cold start:

no platform, no capital flywheel, founders asking “how much can you really commit?”, and a model that didn’t yet exist in Israel. They took risk, stitched supply and demand together, and built what Mor calls “a network of networks”— a global base of ultra-high-net-worth operators and builders.

Today, iAngels is an early-stage VC with:

• 120+ investments

• $550M+ deployed

• 27 profitable exits

• experience from seed to IPO and public boards

In this episode, Mor breaks down what most people don’t see:

• Why Israel’s “startup dinner table” culture is an unfair advantage

• How iAngels evolved from co-investment into a true early-stage VC platform

• What founders misunderstand about dilution vs. partnership

• Why “over-engineering” kills startups (especially now)

• How AI is rewriting the rules of competition—and what she expects from founders next

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Dor Skuler: ElliQ’s “AI Grandma Companion” — 80 No’s, NYT Front Page, Real Impact

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:24:40 GMT

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After ELLI•Q™ landed above-the-fold on the New York Times front page, Dor Skuler—CEO & Co-Founder of Intuition Robotics—joins Haggai Klorman Eraqi to unpack how you build trust, etiquette, and real companionship with a machine.

Dor shares the decade-long journey that started long before Amazon even shipped Alexa, survived 80+ investor “no’s,” and finally created ELLI•Q™, a proactive AI robot designed to reduce loneliness, improve wellness behaviors, and connect families—without turning people into “the product.”

If you’re interested in AI, robotics, health, or any mission-driven market, this episode is a masterclass and a must-listen.

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Roi Bar-Kat (Intel Capital Israel): How to Pitch, Build Defensibility & Win in the AI Era

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:35:58 GMT

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Roi Bar-Kat leads Intel Capital’s investing in Israel—and he’s helped back companies across AI, deep tech, cybersecurity, and more. In this conversation with Haggai Klorman Eraqi, Roi breaks down what consistently separates the startups that earn conviction (and outcomes) from the ones that don’t: founder quality, storytelling, and defensibility in an AI-accelerated world.

We go from Roi’s “non-traditional” path into venture to Intel Capital’s unusually strong model for combining financial discipline with long-term strategic value. Along the way, Roi shares a practical pitching framework, two lists every founder should write, why deep tech is getting even more compelling, and what AI could mean for the next wave of companies.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Why Intel Capital shifted toward investing in “the best companies first”—and how that creates strategic value

• What makes a founder investable

• How AI is reshaping SaaS risk and boosting deep tech opportunity

• Why single-founder companies are harder to bet on

• What “physical AI” looks like and why it’s defensible

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From SafeDK Exit to ClarityQ: Orly Shoavi on PMF, Co-Founders & Trustworthy Data AI

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:13:28 GMT

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Orly Shoavi has done what most founders only talk about: built through the “two years in the desert,” found a breakout wedge, and exited—then came back for round two with ClarityQ. In this episode, Orly (Co-Founder & CEO, ClarityQ) sits down with Haggai Klorman Eraqi to unpack the real founder journey: choosing a co-founder like a marriage, surviving the emotional whiplash of acquisition talks, and the moment SafeDK unlocked growth by shifting from “everyone loves it” to “everyone pays.”

Then we fast-forward to ClarityQ—the pain Orly felt firsthand at scale: teams drowning in data but blocked by bottlenecked analysts. She explains why GenAI made this problem solvable now, how ClarityQ builds trust (transparency, SQL visibility, human-in-the-loop), and what it means to move from prompt engineering to context engineering.

What you’ll learn:

How Orly vetted a co-founder—and why alignment beats “perfectly different skill sets”
The SafeDK wedge: monitoring SDKs → ad intelligence → explosive demand (and why it started as “just a feature”)
The acquisition roller coaster: term sheet, sudden freeze, brutal uncertainty… then a better all-cash offer
Why “waiting on analysts” slows decisions—and how ClarityQ helps teams move faster
How to trust AI analytics: plans, steps, SQL, guardrails, and analyst verification workflows
Orly’s advice to her younger self: start earlier

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Turn Raw Tech Into Revenue: Eugene Buff’s 30-Year Playbook for Open Innovation

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:27:06 GMT

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For 30+ years, Eugene Buff has been the behind-the-scenes “bridge” between breakthrough science and the companies that actually bring it to market—from university tech transfer offices drowning in inventions to global corporates hunting for the next edge. He’s a MD/PhD geneticist, a former Harvard Medical School researcher whose papers still get cited… and the rare operator who walked away from NIH funding to pursue commercialization full-time.

In this conversation with Haggai Klorman Eraqi, Eugene tells the story of how he realized the Nobel line was “too long,” and reinvented himself as an innovation strategist who helps organizations answer the hard question: Is this worth building—or should we kill it fast?

You’ll hear:

Why you’re not commercializing inventions—you’re solving problems
The surprising reason Eugene’s default approach is to try to kill the project
What “open innovation” really means
How strategic partnerships, licensing, sponsored research, and venture differ
When getting a patent is the wrong move

If you’re building “deep tech,” spinning out IP, or trying to land a corporate partner without getting crushed by bureaucracy—this episode is for you.

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The Brain Twin 🧠: Turning Human Intuition into an AI Layer (with Assaf Horowitz, BrainVivo)

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:27:16 GMT

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If you’re building in AI and you think “human cognition” is just more training data, this episode will challenge you.

Assaf Horowitz is the Co-Founder & CEO of BrainVivo, a computational neuroscientist working at the edge of sci-fi and enterprise reality: scanning real brains and building “brain twins” — digital models that can predict how a specific expert or audience will feel, value, and decide inside a defined domain. Not a generic model. Not a persona. A measurable cognitive fingerprint.

Assaf watched his grandmother—Tova Horowitz, a Holocaust survivor and the smartest person in his world—fade away from Alzheimer’s. The pain wasn’t only losing her. It was watching a lifetime of judgment, perception, and problem-solving disappear with no way to preserve it. That question becomes the company: what if we could capture parts of a mind’s “operating system” — and make it usable?

Then it gets wild (and concrete). BrainVivo takes a 45–60 minute MRI session, maps your brain’s wiring (connectome) and activity (fMRI), feeds you controlled stimuli (images, sound, even smell/taste), and trains a “translator” between the world’s inputs and your brain’s internal response. The output is a brain twin that can be tested on new stimuli and used to predict intuition-level reactions.

Assaf shares two case studies that make this real:

• Cloning expertise: a Michelin-star chef who literally “hears” tomatoes (synesthesia). BrainVivo built a culinary brain twin and hit ~85% accuracy on the gist of his judgments across dozens of dishes—opening the door to scaling founder-level taste and consistency across locations.

• Predicting markets & behavior: a project with one of the world’s largest investment banks using digitized audience brains reacting to hourly news headlines, producing a high correlation with the market’s fear index (VIX).

• An experiment that beat a gaming company’s internal selection by choosing creatives that dominated click performance.

This is a founder conversation about the next AI frontier: not just smarter models, but more human ones.

In this episode

• What a “brain twin” is—and what it can (and can’t) capture today

• Why language is a crude interface for thought, and where LLMs flatten human depth

• How MRI + stimuli + an encoding/translation model becomes a usable cognitive agent

• Why Assaf believes “NeuroAI” is the next step after LLMs

• The ethics: data ownership, anonymization, and why your mind shouldn’t be scraped

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Travel protection that people genuinely ❤️? with Faye Co-Founder Daniel Green

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:29:29 GMT

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In this episode, Daniel Green (Co-Founder & CTO) shares how Faye became one of the fastest-growing, most loved travel protection brands in the U.S.—by obsessing over one idea: solve it now.

Daniel breaks down the bigger lesson behind that moment: customers don’t want more alerts, dashboards, or “status updates.” They want outcomes. And Faye’s entire product philosophy—from app-first support to proactive flight tracking and instant claim access—was built around delivering calm, clarity, and solutions when travelers are emotional, exhausted, and stuck.

What makes this story even wilder? Faye’s first version launched in December 2019 as a predictive travel tool… and then COVID wiped the market overnight. That collapse forced the team to listen harder than ever—and what they heard again and again was simple: “I’d pay 10x if you’d just handle it.” That insight became the turning point.

In this conversation with Haggai Klorman Eraqi, you’ll hear:

• Why “love” is a serious KPI—even in insurance

• The product shift from information → real-time solutions

• What a modern travel protection experience looks like: app-first, proactive, instant virtual cards

• How Faye recruited senior talent from major industry players before they “needed” them

• Daniel’s practical framework for AI: embrace it, measure it, and don’t ship hallucinations into decisions

• The founder operating principle that keeps showing up: you don’t know if you don’t ask

If you care about product-market fit, customer trust, and building a brand people rally around—this one will stick with you.

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Bird? Plane? No—It’s Verobotics’ Window-Cleaning Robot | Ido Genosar

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:12:16 GMT

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They said it couldn’t be done. So he built a robot and sent it up the side of a skyscraper.

No water. No chemicals. Just quiet, climbing machines—methodically wiping down glass and collecting inspection data that building owners have never had access to before. That’s what Ido Genosar and his team at Verobotics are doing. And yes, it looks like science fiction. But it’s already working on real buildings.

Ido’s path here? Let’s just say it didn’t start in a robotics lab. It started in the Tel Aviv nightlife scene—selling, hustling, navigating human behavior with the instincts of someone who’s learned to read a room better than most people read books. That same scrappy mindset—figuring things out by feel, not by formula—is what carried him through the hardest category in tech: real-world hardware.

In this episode, we go deep on:

• Why “physical AI” is having its moment—and why robotics is brutally different from software

• What it takes to scale a robot when every building is a different beast

• The hidden economics of facade maintenance (and why the labor shortage makes this inevitable)

• Japan as a robotics and real estate super-market—and why it’s still hard to crack

• How founders earn trust with customers when the bar for robots is higher than for humans

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Daniel Cohen’s Ultimate Bet on Israel B2C Startups

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:58:42 GMT

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Daniel Cohen has spent 25 years investing across Israel’s tech ecosystem—Gemini, Viola, and now as Co-Founder & GP at Sticker Ventures, where he’s betting hard on one thing: the next wave of global consumer winners will come out of Israel.

In this episode, Daniel breaks down why Israeli founders have a unique edge in distribution, growth hacking, and performance-driven execution—and where they often stumble when it’s time to build a real global brand. You’ll hear the behind-the-scenes thinking of a specialist VC: what he funds, what he passes on fast, why retention beats revenue early, and how he evaluates founders who are still pre-launch but aiming big.

In this episode

• Why Daniel believes Israel can produce the next global B2C breakout

• The “Israeli advantage” in B2C marketing (and why it matters now more than ever)

• The biggest weakness: turning hacks into a durable brand

• Why Daniel prioritizes retention over revenue early on

• The fastest “no” signals—and what founders can do to come back stronger

• When performance marketing is a must… and what alternatives take too long to bet on

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Eyal Harel’s Blueprint to Make Water Safe at Scale

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:39:02 GMT

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Eyal Harel, CEO of BlueGreen Water Technologies, has spent 12 years going where most companies won’t: toxic, collapsing water bodies that communities rely on—and where “solutions” usually mean waiting for the next disaster. Eyal has seen how bad it gets up close: sewage flowing into lakes, drinking water pulled from the other side, and ecosystems turning into dead zones you can’t swim in, fish from, irrigate with, or even touch.

In our conversation, Eyal explains why harmful algal blooms are a water pandemic—and why the world still treats water like air: essential, invisible, and something nobody wants to pay for. He breaks down BlueGreen’s approach: surgically trigger a collapse of the toxic species, then let biodiversity rebuild the ecosystem fast.

Then it turns into the hard business reality: how do you build a company when the problem is enormous, but the market doesn’t exist? Eyal unpacks why investors struggle to price water innovation, why government budgets lag the crisis, and how BlueGreen is using carbon markets as a financing engine to scale water restoration—without relying on handouts.

What you’ll hear in this episode

Why harmful algal blooms turn lakes and coasts into dead zones
Why water insecurity becomes a humanitarian, economic, and geopolitical risk
Why “nature rebounds” when given a chance
Why Florida is spending aggressively on algal blooms
The “problem exists, market doesn’t” trap—and how it breaks funding
The carbon-credit pathway that can finance water cleanup at scale

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Uncertainty Is Your Moat: Jerry Neumann on How Real Breakthroughs (and Great Investments) Are Made

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:21:21 GMT

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Jerry Neumann is a Columbia University professor, author, and retired investor who was named one of the “100 Best Early-Stage Investors” and one of the “Most Important VCs in New York” by Business Insider. He co-wrote Founder vs Investor, runs the iconic blog Reaction Wheel, and has spent decades dissecting how startups really win—not in theory, but in the messy, unpredictable reality of markets, psychology, and human behavior.

This episode is a field guide for founders and investors who want to understand the only force that consistently produces breakout companies: UNCERTAINTY.

Jerry argues that when the future is knowable, incumbents win. When it’s unpredictable, founders have a shot—because uncertainty is the brief window where giants hesitate and entrepreneurs can sprint. But that window closes fast, and what you do inside it determines everything.

Haggai and Jerry go deep into:

Why uncertainty—not risk—is the raw material of billion-dollar startups
How Google, Facebook, Uber, and Datadog exploited moments incumbents couldn’t model
The investor’s job: identify the unknowable, not the comfortable
The founder’s job: make the idea bigger—big enough to scare you
Why valuation math is a fantasy (and when walking backwards actually helps)
The emotional violence of building: ego, failure, board politics, and being pushed out of your own company
How to separate your identity from your startup—without losing your nerve
AI as the final stage of the computing wave (and why most AI startups won’t capture the value)
Why entrepreneurship is ultimately the purest expression of human agency

If you’re a founder wrestling with conviction, an investor sharpening your judgment, or someone who wants to understand how innovation actually moves societies—this conversation is for you.

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How to Rebuild a Startup From Zero: Conviction, Collapse & a 10× Comeback with Gilad Uziely (CEO, Sequence)

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:46:26 GMT

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Gilad Uziely isn’t just the CEO of Sequence—he’s one of the few founders who has lived through every chapter of the entrepreneurial cycle: raising millions, scaling fast, watching the unit economics turn against him, shutting off onboarding, facing 160 rejections, restructuring a cap table with 83 signatures… and then coming back with a product customers paid for before it even existed.

Today, Sequence is a breakout fintech used by small-business owners to orchestrate their financial lives across dozens of accounts. But before the 10× jump from $200K → $2M ARR, before Aleph VC and Emerge Ventures backed the reboot, and before the community formed organically—there was collapse, uncertainty, and a brutally honest founder question:

Are we resilient… or just insane?

Haggai and Gilad trace the journey with clarity, honesty, and a founder’s battle scars:

In This Episode

• The Ashes: shutting down Lance because each new customer shortened runway.

• Facing Reality: fraud, chargebacks, CAC inflation, and letting Excel tell the truth.

• The Pivot: anchoring on two principles—conviction and building only in a blue ocean.

• The Spark: discovering people wanted a “router for their money” so badly they paid $200 upfront for something that didn’t exist yet.

• The Road Through Startup Hell: six months, 83 signatures, and a term sheet pulled at dawn.

• New Investors: Aleph VC and Emerge Ventures stepping in with conviction.

• The Rebuild: finding the ICP, shifting messaging, and 10× ARR in 12 months.

• Craftsmanship Mode: from chopping wood to precision work across pricing, funnels, and value.

• The Principle: automate everything—because compounding only works if your habits do.

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How to Build Brands People Believe In: From ROUTE 66® to The Wild Geese with André Levy

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:13:07 GMT

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André Levy is the Chairman of Protégé International Group and Lodestar Licensing, and one of the rare operators who has lived every chapter of modern commerce: expelled from Egypt, rebuilt in the UK, forged his career across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, opened markets by hand, survived corporate politics, and then created global brands—ROUTE 66® and The Wild Geese—rooted in story, truth, memory, and identity.

This conversation is a masterclass for any founder, creator, or brand builder who wants to understand how products become myths—and why consumers attach meaning to things long before they ever read the label.

Haggai and André travel through:

• How to build trust in markets where trust is currency

• Why ROUTE 66® felt “real” even before it launched

• The Wild Geese: the Irish diaspora, pride, heritage, and identity woven into a bottle

• The secret: a brand must feel true—before it feels new

• How André turned cultural insight into €200M in annual revenue

• Why corporates fail at innovation—and why entrepreneurs win

• The only real test of a brand: does it spark a story in the buyer’s mind?

If you care about storytelling, consumer psychology, emerging markets, spirits, branding, licensing, or the entrepreneurial psyche—you will love this one.

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